Retail growth in India: some obstacles

India's retail sector is evolving at breakneck speed, fuelled by a strong economy, favourable demographics, rising wealth levels, and the rapidly changing lifestyles and consumer aspirations of an ever growing middle class. India's cities are witnessing a paradigm shift from traditional forms of retailing into a modern organised sector; a transformation that will no doubt accelerate over the coming decade. The booming retail sector is offering significant new opportunities. However, to continue to offer consumers value, some of the core foundational blocks like supply chain, infrastructure and real estate, human resource, policy hurdles need to be removed to keep up with the pace of change. The present research paper is an attempt to look into some of these impediments to retail growth in India which need to be urgently redressed.